• Emily Dickinson and her poetry

Biography Information

• Born in Amherst, Massachusetts
• seldom left her house and had few visitors
• people she did come in contact with had an effect on her poetry
• Reverend Charles Wadsworth- her "closest earthly friend".
• Lived in almost total isolation by 1860's
• Spent time with family
• Father served in Congress
• Brother attended law school and married Susan Gilbert
• Sister lived in similar isolation
• Died in Amherst in 1886

Famous Poems

• There is another sky
• I'm nobody! Who are you?
• Because I could no stop for death
• Nobody knows this little Rose
• I started early--took my dog--

Poetry Styles

• Short verses
• Themes-love, death, nature
• hyphens/dashes
• 1st line-title
• symbolism
• slant rhyme
• rhyming quatrains
• personification
• capitalization: random/important

Historical Events

• One of mass. most prominent families
• Early education in literature
• Kept away from public
• Father graduated from yale